LGBTQ+ Shorts
36 Episodes
Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.
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Vermont
Episode 1
Directed by Joseph Barglowski • 2024 • United States
Starring Ryan McDermott, Chris Bank, Marty WilliamsA couple returns from a mountain trip with their desires unsettled. Back in the city, a man contemplates an unseen landscape and explores alternative paths, all while grappling with the memor...
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05:52Episode 2
The Man of My Dreams
Episode 2
Directed by Tristan Scott-Behrends • 2021 • United States
Starring Henry Bae, DJ ReedA queer romantic reverie unfolds on the nocturnal streets of New York City in this poignant and playful meditation on longing and desire.
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Grace
Episode 3
Directed by Natalie Jasmine Harris • 2024 • United States
Starring Jordan Rayanna Wells, Alexis Cofield, Mikayla LaShae BartholomewShot on diaphanous 16 mm, this dreamy exploration of sexual awakening and the complicated feelings it can stir follows sixteen-year-old Grace as she prepares for he...
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19:51Episode 4
Transeltown
Episode 4
Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina EmersonDante transported to Times Square: a morbid and tender love story begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.
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32:54Episode 5
Blood Below the Skin
Episode 5
Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2015 • Canada
Starring Kelsey Ashby-Middleton, Morgan S. Reesh, Marissa CastilloCountdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change for three girls. While two of them fall in love with each other against all expectations, the third is forced to mot...
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08:38Episode 6
100 Boyfriends Mixtape
Episode 6
Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States
In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of ...
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11:34Episode 7
Walk for Me
Episode 7
Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda HolderA teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?
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Flores
Episode 8
Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge JácomeDrenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...
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21:22Episode 9
God is Good
Episode 9
Directed by C Prinz • 2024 • United States
Through an ecstatic fusion of monologue, music, and dance, this at once lusciously stylized and emotionally raw collaboration between actor-musician Jeremy Pope and filmmaker C Prinz explores and expands notions of Black masculinity as it confronts the ...
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T
Episode 10
Directed by Keisha Rae Witherspoon • 2019 • United States
Starring Koko Zauditu-Selassie, Kherby Jean, Jesus MitchellIn this stylistically dazzling, deeply moving, and unclassifiable short, a film crew follows three grieving participants in Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R...
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15:11Episode 11
How to Carry Water
Episode 11
Directed by Sasha Wortzel • 2023 • United States
This punk-rock fairytale doubles as a portrait of Shoog McDaniel, a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs, the state’s source of precious drinking water. Bringing Shoog’s ...
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MnM
Episode 12
Directed by Twiggy Pucci Garçon • 2023 • United States
Starring Milan Garçon, Mermaid GarçonMNM is an exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explore...
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15:04Episode 13
The Script
Episode 13
Directed by Brit Fryer and Noah Schamus • 2023 • United States
Blending personal interviews with dramatized genre recreations, THE SCRIPT explores the complicated relationship between trans and nonbinary communities and medical providers regarding gender-affirming care. With a playful approach t...
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19:48Episode 14
The Callers
Episode 14
Directed by Lindsey Dryden • 2024 • United Kingdom
THE CALLERS combines anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the story of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to ...
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29:31Episode 15
A Place on the Edge of Breath
Episode 15
Directed by Veronica Rutledge • 2022 • United States
A PLACE ON THE EDGE OF BREATH is a moving window into the relationship between Ava Fiadh and Shaawan Francis as they share some of their most intimate moments during life and gender transitions over the course of a year.
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20:06Episode 16
i get so sad sometimes
Episode 16
Directed by Trishtan Perez • 2021 • Philippines
Starring JC Santiago, Karl Louie Caminade, Russ LigtasIn the small town of Pagadian in the Philippines, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.
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16:26Episode 17
Bold Eagle
Episode 17
Directed by Whammy Alcazaren • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ricky Davao, Gio Gahol, luckymaybe1923Trapped at home with his talking cat, a man seeks refuge in the strong arms of strange men as together they venture deep down into the nether regions of the Internet in search of true happiness. Cau...
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26:23Episode 18
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Episode 18
Directed by Érica Sarmet • 2021 • Brazil
Starring Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Lorre MottaThis formally innovative, euphorically sexy short travels through the queer Brazil of past, present, and future as it traces an encounter between an older butch biker and a band of young polyamorous lesb...
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Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women
Episode 19
Directed by Ayoka Chenzira • 1992 • United States
Starring Aziza, Sondra Loring, Renee Redding-JonesDirectors Ayoka Chenzira and David Rousseve poetically entwine two tales of generational trauma as a young gay man expounds on his experience of the AIDS epidemic while his grandmother reflects o...
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29:39Episode 20
The Foundation
Episode 20
Directed by P. Staff • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom
Originally conceived as a gallery installation, THE FOUNDATION explores the complex legacy of gay fetish artist Tom of Finland via a portrait of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles and the community that has formed around it.
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28:51Episode 21
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Episode 21
Directed by Lucy Winer • 1981 • United States
Starring Rob Epstein, Jan Oxenberg, Terry LawlerOn October 14, 1979, LGBTQ+ history was made when tens of thousands of people converged on America’s capital for the first ever National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. This empowering ...
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03:08Episode 23
Stafford’s Story
Episode 23
Directed by Susan Muska • 1992 • United States
Stafford recounts a memorable encounter at a sex club.
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Ifé
Episode 24
Directed by H. Lenn Keller • 1993 • United States
This stylized short, both sex-positive and slick, follows a day in the life of a Black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the cit...